Thank you Peter... If I decide against installing TOMCAT using the conventional exe in WINDOWS, is there a way I can install Tomcat? What files typically need to go into the installation?
Thanks and Regards Aditya Darbha On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Peter Crowther <peter.crowt...@melandra.com > wrote: > > From: aditya darbha [mailto:adityadar...@gmail.com] > > want to couple Apache Tomcat into my application. My > > installer would check > > for an existing installation of the TOMCAT and would try to > > install Tomcat > > if there is no existing installation.!! > > This installation has to be silent and the user need not > > explicitly know > > that Apache Tomcat is being installed.Is there a way of > > installing Apache > > Tomcat silently in Windows? > > > > If yes, how can I do it? > > A Tomcat installation is just a bunch of files plus some way of starting > Tomcat. Your installer could install the files (don't forget you may need > to install a JRE as well, as the machine may not already have an appropriate > version installed). > > Your installer could also call the script to create an appropriate service > - it depends whether you want to start Tomcat as a service, or whether you > just want it started when the user starts your program. Be aware of your > user base if you choose to do this. In general, I get rather upset when an > installer installs something that runs at startup on my machine and doesn't > tell me. > > - Peter > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
